The Speedrun Manual of Miss Witch-Chapter 105 - Two Reverses! Misfortune Super Doubled! (1/5)

Ciel suddenly remembered something.

Regarding thoughts about transcendence, she had indeed thought about it. Influenced by her subconscious, even she herself had almost forgotten the change in her own thoughts.

Her recent thoughts, starting from preparing to deal with the third-tier cultist Braque, had always been “quickly collect all first-tier paths, activate Old Days simulation, gain self-preservation ability”...

This point was even written in her notebook before the simulation, and her simulated self strictly followed the notebook’s instructions.

The notebook even mentioned leaving Berren City if things got desperate.

Unsurprisingly, her simulated self would also prepare for the worst, planning to leave Berren City from the beginning, so she could leave as quickly as possible if things failed.

So that’s why she encountered misfortune even when leaving Berren City...

If that’s the case, it makes sense.

She just didn’t know how the information in her notebook was obtained, and why she was targeted.

And most importantly—what she recorded in her notebook was in Chinese, not Ansu script, nor any language of this world.

This feeling of being completely spied upon made Ciel feel a surge of heat. She clenched her fists, suppressing the urge to tear something apart.

Without the help of 【Calm Mind】, she probably would have already wanted to find a way to turn the entire city upside down to see what exactly was causing trouble.

Based on the patterns of her own and Oppold’s misfortune rules, Lucy’s misfortune rule was likely also the complete opposite of what she wanted to do.

Perhaps she didn’t want to stay at Deton Manor at all. Her purpose might be something else in Berren City. Even lending the sealed artifact to Ciel might not have been her true inner intention.

It was just that, like Oppold, she also sensed something and was forced to make the “correct” choice...

Caw—

A crow’s cry interrupted Ciel’s thoughts. She looked up and saw a black raven on the rooftop, tilting its head and looking at Ciel, its round eyes seemingly full of curiosity.

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Suddenly, Ciel’s vision was obscured by illusory blood. She could see translucent blood drops flying towards her face. An illusory version of herself slowly fell forward.

Misfortune... began.

Bang bang bang—!

Clang—!

A gunshot rang out from behind Ciel. A bullet pierced through the glass, heading straight for the back of Ciel’s head.

But Ciel was already prepared. A black shadow had already raised a black tower shield behind Ciel. The style of the tower shield was clearly copied from Oppold’s transcendent ability.

The bullet shot into the tower shield as if entering a non-Newtonian fluid mud pit, getting stuck in the center.

Ciel quickly turned around. Through the illusory black shadow, she saw several flashes of fire and gunshots inside the completely dark house behind her, accompanied by curses.

“Damn it, I ain’t gonna risk my life with you guys! Without Boss Solari, you still think you can sell this batch of arms to the North Ansu Brotherhood?!”

Thump—

The wooden door was kicked open. A man wearing a newsboy cap stumbled out, clutching his arm. He was clearly stunned upon seeing Ciel on the street.

He visibly made a motion as if to raise his gun, but seemed to think better of it, gritted his teeth, and took advantage of the night cover to run directly down the other side of the street.

Clock Tower Alley had no public lighting in the early morning hours. Relying only on the faint moonlight, faces were indistinguishable beyond ten meters. He clearly chose to flee directly to avoid trouble.

Arms... Blackwater Gang?

If it was the Blackwater Gang, the arms they mentioned, was it that batch...

Siege explosive barrels!

The next moment, a black shadow shot out from beside Ciel’s feet, darting towards the distance. Ciel’s figure gradually distorted.

In the instant Ciel’s vision was about to disappear, she saw a flash of illusory firelight.

Boom—!

Just as Ciel’s figure was replaced by the black shadow, the entire house in front of the shadow exploded violently.

The fierce explosion directly blew off the house’s roof. That house and several surrounding houses instantly turned into ruins engulfed in fire and smoke. Even the ground shook several times.

The originally quiet street gradually erupted into chaos. Cries and screams rose and fell. Ciel, not yet far away, only felt a wave of heat wash over her, followed by tidal waves of weeping and wailing whispers.

Those were the cries of people not yet killed by the blast, lamenting before death, now amplified a hundredfold, exploding in Ciel’s mind.

“Heh...” Ciel clutched her hair painfully, as if trying to use the pain of pulling her hair out to cover the desperate wails in her mind. She quickened her pace, rapidly running away from the explosion.

No... How could she run straight into a Blackwater Gang internal conflict?